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Uh oh...I uncovered something very concerning pulling off the wood paneling on the carrying beam in the basement today. Can someone help me out? Is this termite damage?? Carpenter ants? Water/rot? Gotta figure out what the damage is from and then out how to repair the carrying beam. View...

Couple updates.... Picked up a Mid 2000's Ariens 926LE snowblower for free that needed a little love. New $20 carb, a $30 lever, some gas, a spark plug, and a couple hours later and I've got a really nice blower that's completely overkill for my property. Debating keeping or selling it since I...

My E46 M3 uses wheel speed sensors for TPMS as well. I wonder when they switched to using actual pressure sensors.

I hadn't thought about putting the oil tank outside. Big picture goals are to switch over to gas as some point which is available at the street. When my water tank blew a year ago, I thought about making the switch, but price was just too much so I replaced the indirect water heater tank in...

Here's a post just to bump the thread and try to get some opinons on the basement garage expansion ideas.... Unique thing about my mud flat mooring and the 10-ft tide swings means the boat is high and dry around low tide. I can typically take the boat out +/-3 hours from low tide so I'm always...

Thanks, Trapps. I'll post some pictures of the space here for others to comment. Hopefully someone can speak to having heating loop pipes exposed in a garage and penetrating the ceiling to service the hot water heating units. There are also hot/cold potable water pipes exposed in this area too...

Glad I found your thread! I'm getting some inspiration from your built-in work bench setup in a small garage. Looks like a really clean setup.

Hello, fellow Masshole! The stairs go down to the left on that drawing, so that wouldn't be an issue.

:thumbup: Thanks for spending the time on that! I've had very similar thoughts as well. Only major issue I see is that there are 2 drain lines running down through that wall you propose knocking down. Nothing that can't be done to move them, but definitely adds to the complexity unless I just...

Been working on a few things around the house. Gutted the guest room closet, put in an ikea closet system and painted/hung doors that were in the basement when I bought the house. Looks much better now. Also been tinkering on a Suzuki DT4 2-stroke outboard for my 10 foot inflatable dinghy...

The "GC8" has a special place in my heart. Mine was dyno'd at 360 wtq and 313 whp when I was done with it and weighed ~2850 lbs. Funny enough, I sold it to a guy in Vermont who sold it to a guy in Maine who sold it to a guy who lives in the town I live in....I still see it driving around my...

Those stands look very similar to the aluminum Schwaben and Torin units. Not identical, but very simlar. Earlier models or different manufacturer maybe? Schwaben -...